Belt-buckle.



L. SANDERS. BELT BUCKLE. APPLICATION FILED AUG. e, 1922.

1,054,449, Patented Feb. 25, 1913.

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BELT-BUCKLE.

Specification of Letters Patent Iatented Feb. 25. 1913.

Application filed August 6, 1912 Serial No. 713,542.

To all whom z'tmay concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS SANDERS, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city-0f New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Belt- Buckle, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention-relates particularly to the crass of belt buckles in which one end of the belt is adjustably engaged by a gripping roller. With buckles'of the type referred to, and as ordinarily constructed, there is but limited range of accommodation for belts of varying thicknesses, so that a buckle which will effectively grip a belt of reasonable thickness and provide for the convenient manipulation of the roller in adjusting the belt, will not properly grip a relatively thin belt.

It is the design of my invention to provide a buckle of the type in question in which the housing and back plate shall have such conformation and relation to each other, and such a correlati n with the roller, that the roller will effectively grip a belt of any thickness ordinarily handled by the trade.

' The invention w1ll be particularly defined in the specific description hereinafter to'be given. v

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which likecharacters of reference denote corres onding parts in all the views, and in whic v Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved buckle showing the same secured to one end of a belt; Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the buckle showing both ends of the belt; and Fig. 3 is a pian view of the blank from which the base plate of the buckle is formed.

The buckle comprises a base plate 10 having a housing 11 adapted to receive one end A of the belt, the rear end of the base plate being extended beyond the housing in the example shown as at 12, said extension carrying any suitable fastening means, such as a gripping lever 13, for fastening the buckle to the opposite end B'of the belt. Within the housing 11, ranging transversely thereof, is a gripping roller ll adapted to roll-and contact with'the inner face of the base plate 10 in slots 15 of the housing, the ends of theroller beingformed with enlarged. heads 16 at the sides of the housing 11 adapted to be taken hold of by the user in shifting the roller. The front of the housing 11 is arched longitudinally of the buckle, thereby giving the interior of the housing its deepest point at about the center. The forward end of the front of the housing 11 thus curves inwardly toward. the base plate, and the rear end similarly curves inwardly toward the base plate to give the buckle a symmetrical appearance arched form. The base plate 10 forms the bottom wall of the slots 15, so that the roller moving in the slots, is in direct contact with the base plate and therefore travels in a plane parallel with the base plate.

It will be observed, particularly from Fig. 2, that aportion 17 of the base plate is given forward inclination so that it inclines in the direction of the forwardend of the housing 11, said inclined portion starting near the center or deepest portion of the buckle. Desirably, also, the rear portion'of the base plate from the inclined portion 17 to the rear end may be similarly inclined from the end toward the center as shown. The inner ends of the slots 15 through which the grip ping roller extends terminates at about the center of the buckle, so that the roller 14 in moving inwardly away from the front end will bring up against the inner ends of the slots at about the deepest part of the buckle and thereby afford ample space for the free 'movement of the belt end A when said end is being adjusted in the housing or withdrawn therefrom, and the belt will not have a tendency to engage the roller and draw it forwardly to accidentally grip the belt. The 'described outward inclination of the base plate toward the housing and the inward curving of the front end of t-he'hou'sing forms a contracted throat, as at 18, adjacent to'the front terminal of the slots 15, and thus the belt will be gripped between the roller and the inner surface of the housing 11 adj acent to the throat. This gripping will be effected regardless of the thickness of the belt within the limits usually handled by the trade, the result being that a buckle of a single size-fills all the requirements of the trade, whereas, with the ordinary means for guiding the roller in an inclined direction toward the housing, even a curved housing, they fail to effectively grip a thick belt if proportioned to receive a thin belt, and vice versa.

It will be observed that the extreme for- Ward end of the base plate, in front of the inclined portion 17, is offset rearwardly, as

at- 19, and in this way I provide a mouth 20 of ample size to permit the convenient entrance of'the belt end A, which result is produced without in any way affecting the gripping action of the roller against the belt at the throat, whereas to terminate the buckle at the'contracted throat would make the entrance of the belt difficult. v

The housing 11 maybe secured in any suitable manner to the base plate 10; in'the instance shown said plate is formed with edge recesses 22 at opposite sides which receive lugs or tongues "23 at the inner edges of the sides 21 of said housing, the extreme ends 24 of said tongues being clenched against the back of the base plate 10. It will be observed that one pair of recesses 22 are formed in the offset portion 19so that the corresponding tongues 23 willengage the back plate near the extreme front.

Having thus decribed my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Let ters Patent is i The herein--clescribed belt buckle, having a longitudinally arched front plate forming a housing for one end of the belt, a base plate at the back of the front plate, and a transverse roller movable in the housing to secured at their rear edges to the base plate,

the sides being fortned with alining slots through which the ends of the roller extend outwardly, the bottom Wall of the slots being defined by the base plate, and the roller having a hearing within the housing, on the base plate to travel parallel therewith, the said base plate at the portion adjacent to the slots being plane and disposed at anangle to the longitudinal center of the buckle and the base plate being furthermore formed with a plane terminal end that is bodily offset rearwardly from a point in front of the slots, theend of the front plate adjacent to the said plane offset terminal of the base plate being continued in arched form to the front end.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

LOUIS SANDERS.

Witnesses J. L. MoAumrrn, PHILIP D. ROLLHAUS. 

